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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through San Francisco, 2012 and Los Angeles, 2012.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For which method of transportation did the unnamed narrator advocate during her discussion with her tall, dark-haired friend?
(a) Bicycling.
(b) Hiring a car.
(c) Riding a train.
(d) Boating.

2. What did the artist's husband use as evidence against her during their custody dispute?
(a) Her art.
(b) Her criminal record.
(c) Her financial records.
(d) Her journals.

3. What adjective did the unnamed narrator use to describe her husband John in a conversation with her one-night stand?
(a) Fun.
(b) Oblivious.
(c) Dumb.
(d) Nice.

4. Whose literary work was the unnamed narrator reading during the summer of 2000?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Jodi Picoult.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

5. How many hours of supervised visitation with her children was the artist given as a result of the custody order?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the artist's exhibitions featured photographs of her recreating poses of which person from her life?

2. On what day of the week did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend visit the art gallery?

3. The unnamed narrator reflects in Los Angeles, 2011 that "every confidence is a kind of" (65) what?

4. How does the unnamed narrator describe the temperature of the nighttime air she encountered as she walked home at the end of Ann Arbor, 2002?

5. The unnamed narrator recalls wondering "what it would feel like to push" which character "over the edge" (60) of the abyss?

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